The Atlantic Times
| The Atlantic Times | |
|---|---|
.svg){kind=small}
|
|
| description | Monthly newspaper |
| publishing company | Times Media GmbH |
| First edition | October 3, 2004 |
| Editor-in-chief |
Peter Köpf , Rafael Seligmann |
| editor | Theo summer |
| Web link | The Atlantic Times online |
| Article archive | The Atlantic Times Archive |
| ISSN (print) | 1864-3965 |
The Atlantic Times (AT) is a German monthly newspaper from the publishing house Times Media , which has been published in English since 2004 and is aimed at readers in the USA and Canada. The main focus is on politics, economics and culture. The newspaper is editorially produced in Berlin and near Washington, DC in Springfield (Virginia) . Printed by Gannett Offset in US broadsheet format . The Atlantic Times is entirely ad-funded and politically independent. The first edition of the Atlantic Times appeared on October 3, 2004, the anniversary of German reunification, and was presented at the German embassy in Washington DC.
Theo Sommer , editor of the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit, is the editor of the Atlantic Times . Peter Köpf and the writer and author Rafael Seligmann are the chief editors . Rainer Bieling is responsible for the special supplements.
The publisher, editor and editorial team have all started with the aim of building a bridge from Germany to the USA. According to Theo Sommer, the idea for the Atlantic Times was due to the insight “that the world is growing closer and closer together. Coexistence is to be strengthened through better mutual understanding and the transatlantic framework is to be consolidated. ”In this way, the Atlantic Times makes a concrete contribution to improving German-American relations. Since January 2007 the English-language sister newspaper The German Times has been published by the same publisher as a counterpart for Europe .
Authors and addressees
In the first edition of the Atlantic Times , the author of the cover story was then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . For the second birthday (October 2006 edition), Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote the leading article. In addition, articles have been published in the Atlantic Times : Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Henry A. Kissinger , Helmut Schmidt , Walther Leisler Kiep , Lothar Späth , Günter Verheugen , Caio Koch-Weser , Volker Rühe , Hans-Ulrich Klose , Ernst Cramer , Volker Schlöndorff , Kai Diekmann , Christoph Keese , Stephan-Andreas Casdorff , Wolfgang Ischinger , Richard Lugar .
Regular recipients of the newspaper, according to the publisher, include US President Barack Obama , the White House, the US administration, Congress and many important decision-makers in the United States. On April 2, 2005, the Times Media publisher presented US President George W. Bush with a copy of the Atlantic Times when he was visiting Germany . George W. Bush receives the Atlantic Times, as does his father, former US President George Bush . The German Federal Chancellery, all federal ministries and members of the Bundestag and Bundesrat are also regular recipients of the Atlantic Times . The Atlantic Times is distributed at universities such as Stanford , Harvard and Princeton . It sits in Lufthansa machines on flights to and from North America and is available at newspaper kiosks in major cities in the USA and Europe. In the USA it costs 1 dollar, in Europe 3.90 euros.
Web links
- The Atlantic Times online - the newspaper's website
- Times Media GmbH - website of the publisher
Individual evidence
- ^ Quote from Judith Rieder: Sommers "Times" In: taz , February 24, 2008
- ↑ Nancy Krahlisch Where the Chancellor writes. The Atlantic Times is the name of a new newspaper from Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 21, 2004
- ↑ Angela Merkel's leading article on the two-year anniversary ( memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Atlantic Times , October 2006, p. 1
- ↑ Bush on the Atlantic Times: “A really great idea”. March 2005 Issue . Archived from the original on May 11, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
